Lead guitar lessons - The advantage of backing tracks

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Having worked in the music production and backing track industry for the last 12 years as a guitarist come music arranger, one thing has become quite obvious to me.
Playing lead guitar to a backing track definitely makes a big difference to how well you play guitar solos. I often have to stop myself from just [...]

Lead guitar lessons - Which notes to play

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

When I first learned to play lead guitar, I basically taught myself. I had no lead guitar lessons to work from. My knowledge of music theory was very limited, and all I had as a starting point was a simple finger exercise in the key of C.
I don’t want to bore you here with my [...]